![]() ![]() She takes on the project of learning more about her family’s past from the genealogical point of view, and also by learning more about the culture in Spain from which her ancestors fled. ![]() From her research she discovers that many religious “conversos,” Jewish converts to Christianity during the inquisition, immigrated to Costa Rica, including her possible ancestors. In the past she had had several people point out that her last name is the same as that of a family who was executed in Mexico under suspicion of practicing Jewish religious traditions in the 1800s. The Forgetting River is about the author’s search for her family’s roots in Spain. ![]()
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